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This is pseudoscience at large. This article itself cites ~60 other articles on the same subject. Unbelievable. If any of what they claim about "grounding" was

This is pseudoscience at large. This article itself cites ~60 other articles on the same subject. Unbelievable. If any of what they claim about "grounding" was true, the doctors would notice it a long time ago and they would be wiring patients to ground potential for decades already. This article is likely a deliberate attempt to trick and confuse people who are prone to believe almost any misinformation. Such people might believe that Covid vaccines contain chips or that Trump won the 2020 election or that there were no Moon landings or that the Earth is flat or that Putin is actually entitled to attack "nazis" in Ukraine. Unfortunately, the same people are prone to believe all these lies. And, also unfortunately, they are unlikely to believe any sane information which disproves them. It is in my opinion a dangerous state. Consider that there is a massive group of people who are completely brainwashed by these misinformation campaigns. They are easily manipulated by those who spread misinformation because in their eyes those people are the only ones who have an opinion that is compatible with their understanding of the world. Even when it is completely nuts, against any logic and against any science.

nikkwong 4y ago
> If any of what they claim about "grounding" was true, the doctors would notice it a long time ago and they would be wiring patients to ground potential for decades already. I'm not sure if this is how medicine works. There are many practices that 'should be obvious' as health promoting but weren't put into place clinically until recently. For example, bright, early morning sunlight for alleviating depression and anxiety; or using infrared light for reducing local inflammation and reducing pain. We've been able to use electromagnetism to our advantage for hundreds of years, but only within the last decade or so these two use cases which look incredibly obvious in retrospect have become common place. So I don't think doctors are always 'quick to notice'. However, I think most of your latter points are correct.
- pbasista 4y ago
  > I'm not sure What I am saying is that medicine is a science and as such uses the scientific method. The people involved in it can develop vaccines, perform neurosurgery, etc. They do not need a bunch of misinformation spreaders to tell them that there is this great "life hack" that everyone has been missing all these years. If there was e.g. a considerable disproportion in the healing time of the same kind of wounds in patients from hospitals A and B, the doctors and other scientists would look into it, even decades ago. If "grounding" of hospital beds was to be the root cause, they would have noticed it and investigated it. Yet, no such "discovery" was ever made.
datavirtue 4y ago
To what end?

nikkwong 4y ago

> If any of what they claim about "grounding" was true, the doctors would notice it a long time ago and they would be wiring patients to ground potential for decades already. I'm not sure if this is how medicine works. There are many practices that 'should be obvious' as health promoting but weren't put into place clinically until recently. For example, bright, early morning sunlight for alleviating depression and anxiety; or using infrared light for reducing local inflammation and reducing pain. We've been able to use electromagnetism to our advantage for hundreds of years, but only within the last decade or so these two use cases which look incredibly obvious in retrospect have become common place. So I don't think doctors are always 'quick to notice'. However, I think most of your latter points are correct.

pbasista 4y ago
> I'm not sure What I am saying is that medicine is a science and as such uses the scientific method. The people involved in it can develop vaccines, perform neurosurgery, etc. They do not need a bunch of misinformation spreaders to tell them that there is this great "life hack" that everyone has been missing all these years. If there was e.g. a considerable disproportion in the healing time of the same kind of wounds in patients from hospitals A and B, the doctors and other scientists would look into it, even decades ago. If "grounding" of hospital beds was to be the root cause, they would have noticed it and investigated it. Yet, no such "discovery" was ever made.

datavirtue 4y ago

To what end?